7-letter words that end in ck
- manjack — a west Indian tree with slimy fruit
- manpack — a compact load able to be carried by one person
- matlock — a town in England, on the River Derwent, administrative centre of Derbyshire: mineral springs. Pop: 11 265 (2001)
- mattock — an instrument for loosening the soil in digging, shaped like a pickax, but having one end broad instead of pointed.
- maybeck — Bernard, 1862–1957, U.S. architect.
- meacock — (obsolete) An uxorious, effeminate, or spiritless man.
- merrick — David (David Margulies) 1912–2000, U.S. theatrical producer.
- minnick — to behave in a fussy way, esp with regards to the foods one chooses to eat
- miskick — (sports) An bad kick.
- misluck — Ill luck; misfortune.
- mispick — a pick or filling yarn that has failed to interlace with the warp as a result of a mechanical defect in the loom.
- mudpack — a pastelike preparation, as one consisting of fuller's earth, astringents, etc., used on the face as a cosmetic restorative.
- mullock — (in Australasia) refuse or rubbish, as rock or earth, from a mine; muck.
- netback — a calculation of the price of crude-oil products based on the price of crude oil.
- nethack — (games) /net'hak/ (Unix) A dungeon game similar to rogue but more elaborate, distributed in C source over Usenet and very popular at Unix sites and on PC-class machines (nethack is probably the most widely distributed of the freeware dungeon games). The earliest versions, written by Jay Fenlason and later considerably enhanced by Andries Brouwer, were simply called "hack". The name changed when maintenance was taken over by a group of hackers originally organised by Mike Stephenson. Version: NetHack 3.2 (Apr 1996?). E-mail: <[email protected]>.
- netrock — /net'rok/ (IBM) A flame; used especially on VNET, IBM's internal corporate network.
- niblick — a club with an iron head, the face of which has the greatest slope of all the irons, for hitting the ball with maximum loft.
- niddick — the nape of the neck
- nipmuck — a member of an Algonquian Indian people living in the vicinity of Worcester, Mass.
- nitpick — to be excessively concerned with or critical of inconsequential details.
- nudnick — Alt form nudnik.
- nutpick — a thin, sharp-pointed table implement or device for removing the edible kernels from nuts.
- o'clock — of, by, or according to the clock (used in specifying the hour of the day): It is now 4 o'clock.
- oarlock — any of various devices providing a pivot for an oar in rowing, especially a swiveling, crutchlike or ringlike metal device projecting above a gunwale.
- on deck — Nautical. a floorlike surface wholly or partially occupying one level of a hull, superstructure, or deckhouse, generally cambered, and often serving as a member for strengthening the structure of a vessel. the space between such a surface and the next such surface above: Our stateroom was on B deck.
- oobleck — A mixture of cornstarch and water with unusual physical properties.
- outback — (sometimes initial capital letter) the back country or remote settlements; the bush (usually preceded by the).
- outkick — to exceed in kicking
- outrock — to outdo in rocking
- outwick — to move (a curling stone) so that it strikes against the outer side of a stone that has already been played and turns towards the tee or (of a curling stone) to strike another stone in this manner
- paddock — Archaic. a frog or toad.
- padlock — a portable or detachable lock with a pivoted or sliding shackle that can be passed through a link, ring, staple, or the like.
- parrock — a small field or enclosure; a pen
- patrick — Saint, a.d. 389?–461? British missionary and bishop in Ireland: patron saint of Ireland.
- payback — the period of time required to recoup a capital investment.
- peacock — the male of the peafowl distinguished by its long, erectile, greenish, iridescent tail coverts that are brilliantly marked with ocellated spots and that can be spread in a fan.
- petcock — a small valve or faucet, as for draining off excess or waste material from the cylinder of a steam engine or an internal-combustion engine.
- piddock — any bivalve mollusk of the genus Pholas or the family Pholadidae, having long, ovate shells and burrowing in soft rock, wood, etc.
- pillock — idiot
- pinnock — any of various small songbirds such as the dunnock
- pollack — a food fish, Pollachius pollachius, of the cod family, inhabiting coastal North Atlantic waters from Scandinavia to northern Africa.
- pollock — Also called saithe. a North Atlantic food fish, Pollachius virens, of the cod family.
- popsock — a knee-length nylon sock, worn under trousers
- porlock — to interrupt or intrude at an awkward moment
- potluck — food or a meal that happens to be available without special preparation or purchase: to take potluck with a friend.
- prepack — a package assembled by a manufacturer, distributor, or retailer and containing a specific number of items or a specific assortment of sizes, colors, flavors, etc., of a product.
- prerock — of the era before rock music
- puttock — a bird of prey, esp the buzzard and the red kite
- ransack — to search thoroughly or vigorously through (a house, receptacle, etc.): They ransacked the house for the missing letter.
- ratpack — a close-knit group of people with common interests who participate in various professional and recreational activities together.